Is there a certain season for squirrel hunting?

[canadian hunter312]

no matter what anybody tells you, cook them up because they taste GREAT! cook them pretty much anyway you want and they will taste good. bbq, frying pan, roasted, etc.

if you want to get soemone to try it that would never knowingly eat it, then grind up the meat from a few squirells and throw in some bacon (not too much tho) along with some spices, onion, crushed crackers and a few eggs. form hamburg patties and panfry until done.

you will be very surprised by how great it is and so will the people who are trying it. just dont tell them what it is until they are done

 

[Pudelpointer]

Squirrels are mentioned in the synopsis only to say that you can use neck snares with out a permit along with rabbits and beaver under the ice.
Squirrels are simply a varmint and no permits licences are needed to hunt or trap them.
Also you do not need a licence to trap all "fur bearing animals in Sask. Foxes, coyotes, skunks, rabbits and racoons as well as beaver in some municipalities may be hunted year round with out a licence by Saskatchewan residents in zones 1-55. (page 6 of the Sask Hunting and trapping Regs 2006)

If you read the regs carefully, you will see that squirrel's are considered a fur bearer, and have a season from November 1st to March 31st. Also, you may snare them without a "special permit" (ie. for snaring), not without a fur trappers licence! Squirrels are not varmints in BC, AB, or SK! They are fur bearers and make up a considerable portion of many trappers annual take. If anyone disagrees, please, feel free to phone your local fish and wildlife officer and tell them all about your squirrel hunting escapades.

 

[Imposter]

May be going off on a tangent, but for the heck of it... What if your cat/dog catches a squirrel in BC/AB/SK and kills it? Would you theoretically be in violation of laws/hunting regs if an animal you own kills an "endangered" or fur-bearing animal?

 

[bufalobill]

If you read the regs carefully, you will see that squirrel's are considered a fur bearer, and have a season from November 1st to March 31st. Also, you may snare them without a "special permit" (ie. for snaring), not without a fur trappers licence! Squirrels are not varmints in BC, AB, or SK! They are fur bearers and make up a considerable portion of many trappers annual take. If anyone disagrees, please, feel free to phone your local fish and wildlife officer and tell them all about your squirrel hunting escapades.

If YOU read the regs carefully, you will see the fur season only applies to the Fur Conservation Blocks.

Bullseye, know where you are hunting and be sure you are not in a conservation block. And I don't know a single trapper that could feed his family on squirrel pelts, with the high selling pelt at the May NAFA auction for $2.45 and averaging $1.45.

 

[Xman]

In Saskatchewan, you can't catch squirels directly but you can trap beavers and teach them how to catch squirels for you. There is a catch though; you only have six days to teach the beaver, from the day you catch it. If you haven't put your beaver to work after six day, you are actually commiting an offence; it's called "seventh day violation" and if you are caught, they'll make you eat that beaver.

How the beaver tastes, actually depends on whether or not they like the water.

Also, beware of over agressive beavers who swallow the squirel whole, especially small ones.

If you are from the Prince Albert area, look out for really hairy beavers; they carry all sorts of diseases and they can easily pass that on to your squirel.

Anyways, what were we talking about?

 

[Salty]

Interesting Xman, I didn't know all that.

Here in BC at least we can kill the western red squirrel in self defence situations at any time. We had a thread way back some time about this... well, never mind its too gruesome to discuss

 

[Bull's-Eye]

Yep, I will be hunting on land behind my cottage. I don't think it is conservation land. I just got a whole bunch of Subsonic ammo to do the job.